Rule Breaker Investing

en years ago, amid plenty of bearish sentiment, David did something unique in the history of his 5-Stock Samplers: he picked five stocks specifically to beat the market over just the next year. The common denominator? Each ranked among the lowest-risk companies in his investing universe.
A decade later, Rick Munarriz joins him to fire up the time machine. Apple, Canadian...

Every once in a while, Rule Breaker Investing sets aside the theme and embraces the hodgepodge. Something Old, something New, something Borrowed, something Blue—four directions, no particular reason they should fit together, and that’s part of the fun.

This time, a World Series champion offers a lesson about sample sizes and staying with a winning proces...

After three weeks of Authors in August, the authors step aside and Rule Breaker listeners take the conversation somewhere new.

A middle-school teacher wrestles with what happens when the measurements meant to improve education begin defining it instead. A father investing for his daughters wonders whether “Add Up, Don’t Double Down” applies to index funds. There ...

Why do we work? A paycheck matters, of course. And, when so much of life is spent working, might we reasonably hope for something more?
Closing out the ninth year of Authors in August, David welcomes Dave Ulrich, one of the world’s leading thinkers on organizations, leadership, and human capability. Using the longtime favorite The Why of Work as a jumpi...

Artificial intelligence may feel suddenly everywhere, but AI pioneer Vasant Dhar has had a front-row seat for more than four decades—teaching AI, building companies around it, and bringing machine learning to Wall Street long before ChatGPT entered the conversation.

For the second week of Authors in August, David sits down with Dhar to ask not merely what machine...